Overcome by tinker lust, never content to leave well enough alone, and creating one monstrosity after another…
It’s the result of more sparkly oddities than I know what to do with - with the picture at left showing one possible use for Angelina Film.
The film is what the births the fibers, I’m guessing they send [...]

Small storage is a premium for fly fishermen, what with all the little things we carry and use, and for fly tiers it’s much worse as we accumulate dander almost as quickly as we draw moths.
Periodically I get the need for more and wander around Google attempting to find what other crafts are using. We [...]

“Think Outside the Box” - we understand the concept easy enough, but only a select view are able to to put the theory to practice. The best example I’ve seen to date is from Michael LeBlanc, who won the Gold Medal in the 2006 World Salmon Fly Tying Championship of the Quebec Federation of [...]

Planning a quick scout trip tomorrow for smallmouth and largemouth bass, chores are completed so I can raze havoc at the tying bench.
I’m not sure what I’ll find as it’s a new lake and a small feeder creek, can’t fish the creek as it’s closed until April, and the lake is a man made impoundment [...]

Following up on a comment from Phil Huewe on the “Cheaper Ice Dub” post I did about a week ago. I knew I had the right fiber, it was the right “flavor” of fiber that was my consternation.
I contacted the maker of Angelina, the Meadowbrook Inventions Inc. and asked them what I was looking [...]

I’m still in a state of enforced idleness, waiting for water levels to resume some semblance of clarity. I keep checking hoping the stream flow meter has malfunctioned, but it keeps telling me to stay home.
…so I ignore it, and wander out for some visual confirmation.

The good news is there are two separate colors instead [...]

My gal was out of the house this weekend so I made melancholy until her car left the driveway. Seizing the opportunity of her absence is important, if she knew what I was up to she’d swivel her head 360 degrees and chase my ass with a butcher knife.
The trick is in hiding your tracks [...]

I don’t know why I expected anything different, I wrote enough articles on the decline in “genetic diversity” to know better. It’s part and parcel of the “WalMart” phenomenon, small Mom and Pop business’s forced out of existence by sinister and cavernous chain stores.
It began innocent enough, I’m low on the special hooks used for [...]

I’m always in awe over any form of craftsmanship, it doesn’t matter whether it’s Shaker furniture or a finely tooled gun butt, it’s the skill of the craftsman that allows a novice to appreciate the difference.
There are many kinds of fly tier, while most tie flies for fishing, others are enamored of the craft [...]

Singlebarbed reader “San Mateo Joe” sent me some of his seed bead creations - instantly driving me into a paroxysm of creativity. The medium is fur and feathers, but we’re prey to all the foibles and idiosyncrasies that mainstream artists endure.
All it takes is some pretty color or odd shaped fiber and we’re willing to [...]